Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Note: this blog post includes resources that reference anti-trans violence. 

Transgender Awareness Week occurs November 13th through November 19th with Transgender Day of Remembrance at the end of the week on November 20th. According to GLAAD, the purpose of this week is to raise visibility of transgender people and address issues community members face. Trans Day of Remembrance serves to honor the memory of transgender lives lost due to anti-trans violence. We wanted to highlight some of the resources Clark College Libraries have to offer about the trans experience.

Print Books  

• Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam 
• To my trans sisters edited by Charlie Craggs 

• Tomorrow will be different: love, loss, and the fight for trans equality by Sarah McBride 
• Gender Outlaw: on men, women, and the rest of us by Kate Bornstein 

Articles  

• Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: The politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance by Sarah Lamble 
• The Early 1990s and Its Afterlives: Transgender Nation Sociality in Digital Activism by Eliza Steinbock 

• What is Needed, What is Valued: Trans Students’ Perspectives on Trans-Inclusive Policies and Practices in Higher Education by Abbie E. Goldberg; Genny Beemyn; and JuliAnna Z. Smith 

eBooks 

• Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memories by Qwo-Li Driskill 
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by Riley C. Snorton 
• Trans* in college: transgender students’ strategies for navigating campus life and the institutional policies of inclusion by Z. Nicolazzo 

• A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer 
• The singing teacher’s guide to transgender voices by Liz Jackson Hearns and Brian Kremer 

Is there anything you feel like the Clark College Library’s collection is missing? We always welcome suggestions! Email your ideas to Library_ReferenceLibrarians@clark.edu or stop by the Ask a Librarian desk!